Judith St. George

Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a year later, brought a library of books to their log cabin home and turned young Abe's life around.

A biography of the sculptor who devoted the last fourteen years of his life to the carving of the four presidents' heads on the face of Mount Rushmore.

In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college - one at Princeton, the other at Columbia - and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the newly formed government of the fledgling nation. Why, then, did these two face each other at dawn in a...

Chronicles the marriage between John Adams, second President of the United States, and his wife Abigail, well-known for speaking out for women's rights.

An account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.